Windshield wiper



Feb. 2s. 1928.

l.. F. PERILLI WINDSHIELD WIPER Filed Oct. 25. 1924 Patented Feb. 2e, 192e. f. j i v1,650,395 Y Yufuiran sr .eres 'ement onirica." i Lotus F. 'PnRILIlIc-)f Ponfrsrfiou'rlnnw HAMPSHIRE. i n

n wrnnsnrnnn winne. Application filed october 25, ieaejseriei No. 745,784.

This yinvention. relates to winch-shield bylO, having the usual metal. frame 12; wipers 4for -inoto-r-cars land "more particn- Centrally of the upper-"reach of the fraine'l larly to that type-of wind-shield kcleaner Vthereis providedia sni'allihousing 13; .secured that clears thevglass .of inist, rain or snow to the traine by screws, and protecting a 5 `from one end to ,the other thereof. pair 'off"gearsl4;. and-16 rotatably mounted y Attempts have heretofore been made to lon the frame. 'lhe roof of thishousiiiginay `devise a` goodforin of a vertically movable Slope forwardito clear the. overhanging nio` -endeto-end 4wind-shield cleaner but so far as tor-car top.` These gears are necessari ly ihepresent inventor is aware none are coinsniallf'and conveniently, although not neces- -inercially available. In designing a vertisarily,V each maybe integral wit-lipari upper e cally` movable end-to-end windlshield wiper 'end of oneof a pair of depending wiper op- `cheapnessV of'inanilfacture-fis highly iinpo-rterating arms 18and 20. Thcfgears need not ant'and one way Vin which this may be ac- ,be kcompletely form-ed and are illustrated as coinplishedA is by employing few and simple fniutilated-gears, the studs on which they roparts so arranged .that mounting on the 1tate being iso located that vtheirt-ecth 'inter-k 70' wind-'shield frame .is easily accomplished; mesh at all'tiin'es. It 'also is highly important that the design @ne gear stud 2l passes through a' holev and manner of attachment Vbe such that drilledi'n the windeshield frame andy has an th'ere isnointerference with the Vision of operating `lhandle. '22 fixedto its projecting `the driver.- whenthe vwiper is collapsed, o r end at'tthe Vrear side of the windshield. A 75 not inl use, and that, when socollapsed, coiled spring 23 i's Vconnected to norinally n there are no parts which project beyond the hold the -handle 22 in a horizontal 'posiwind-shield frameV to interfere with raising tion (Fig. 5) which turns fthegears to a potfhe Vtop on an open car- Y sition to bring the 'operating Marins into 25 The object of this invention is to provide alignment at the ,upper edge` of-` the pane 30' an end-toend wind-shield wiper having all of glass 10 (Fig-.1), The 'operating arms of the vfeatures and advantages just de- 18 and 20 are each slidably connected toa scribed. cleaning strip support 24 in the'following To theaccomplishment'of this object and manner.' The-'fsupport ris in the forni of a :such others as may hereinafter appear, asY tube slit loi'igitudinally at 25 to permit the will readily be understood by those skilled rubber. *clean/erV 2.6 to 'project therefrom in the arlt, the. invention coniprisesythe fea- 6i) l'and fin its forward! wall are. 'two 'tures-'and combinations of parts hereinafter horizontal, 'longitudinal Aslot's "27. 1 A lsliddescribed 4andthen particularly pointed out able* bolt or rivet 28- projectsv horizontally in the appended claims. f from each slot and each bolt has onefo'f the 90 The various features of the invention will arrns 18,20 pivoted' thereon.

best be understood from a description of the t rThe cleanerv 26 is h'ld within a strip of preferrec'lembodiment thereof villustrated in inetalQQbent into'a-fch'annel, and its projecttlie accompanying drawing, in which 1- ing [edge bends about the -K-inetal. as the Figure` 1 is a. "viewi'n lfront elevation of wilper'fnioves up and down over the glass. 95

the wiper-when collapsed at the upper edgey Preferably the cleaning/strip is lin 'two secof the windlshie'ld; i tions, 'asindicated 'ati9 on Figs. @and 3, each Fig; 2 isa View in front- Velevation of the section being secured in 'the support24 by wiper when 'extended or at the end 'of its a "central,'Vertical` piyot pin` 301 This condo'wn- Stroker; l f struction perinitfsfe'ach section torock in'de- 100 Fig. 3 is an underside View of thev wiper p endently and 'hug the 'glass 'on ol'd windwhenrcollapsed; shields whe-re VEthe franie f has l been .bent

Fig. lfisfa detail of the loperating handle;y throwing the glass 'out of its `original "sin- Fig. '5 is a l'detailknfthe opera-ting gears, gleipllan'e. f

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and rad-'us rod 152l hasyits-upper end piv'- 105 Fig; 6 is-a sectional detail on the line 6-6 otal-ly connected 'to v"one'foper'ati'ng'--arin', as of Fig. Q.` 18, at a point 33 generally adjacent theL gear In the embodiment of the invention illus- 14, and its lower end pivotally connected to trated in the drawing the upper glass pane the cleaning strip support 24E at a point 34r of any motor-oar windshield is indicated withinthe two slots 27. The operating arms 119v 

